Usually means: Structured poem, six stanzas, repetition.
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  1. sestina: Merriam-Webster
  2. sestina: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sestina: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sestina: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Sestina, sestina: Wordnik
  6. sestina: Wiktionary
  7. sestina: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sestina: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sestina: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. sestina: Dictionary.com
  11. sestina: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Sestina: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sestina: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. SESTINA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Definitions from Wiktionary (sestina)

noun:  (poetry) A highly structured poem consisting of six six-line stanzas followed by a tercet or envoy, for a total of thirty-nine lines.
noun:  (music) A chord comprising the first six members of the harmonic series.

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